Wire-fastening device for fence-posts



(No Model.)

"I. DROEGE Jr, WIRE FASTENING DEVICE FOR FE'NGE POST-$1.

No. 322,359. Pats'nted July 14,1885.

A UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

IGNATIUS DROEGE, JR., OF TOLEDO, OHIO.

WIRE-FASTENING DEVICE FOR FENCE-POSTS.

SPECIFICATION forming part' of Letters Patent No. 322,359, dated July 14-, 1885.

Application filed April 17, 1885. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that LIGNATIUS DROEGE, J r., a resident of Toledo, in the county of Lucas and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Wire-Fastening Devices for Fence-Posts, of which the following is a specification.

In the drawings, Figure is a front eleva tion of a fence-post, showing my invention; Fig. 2, a side elevation of a part of the same, and Fig. 3 a detail perspective view of the wire-fastening device.

Referring to the drawings, A represents a fence-post made of hollow pipe and covered by a cap, B, which is provided with a tenon, b, projecting down into the hollow pipe.

D represents a collar sliding freely over the barrel of post A.

0 represents the eye of the collar D.

E E represent curved hooks upon the upper side of the collar D, and G represents a reverse curved hook on the bottom side of the collar. This collar serves to sustain the wire a, which is wound around the post, caught under the hook G on the back side, and crossed on the front, going under the hooks E E. The draw of the wire tips the collar so as to give it frictional grip upon the barrel of the post, which strains the wire and holds it and the collar in proper position.

It is designed to use one collar for each strand of the wire fence. The collar may be used either side up, but I have shown it in the preferred form.

I design to use the device for the construc- 3 5 tion of grape-arbors and other similar structures, as well as fences.

1 2 3 represent lugs formed on the inside of the collar, which are used when itis employed on posts which are not round, so as to cause o.

a fit of the collar without the fitting of the parts.

I am aware that heretofore a collar or rin has been arranged upon a fence-post and provided with two lugs arranged at right angles to each other, between which lugs the fencewire is held; and I am also awarethat a collar or ring has been arranged on a fence-post and provided with a lug, between which and the surface of the post the fence-wire is held. Such devices, however, do not constitute my invention and are not claimed by me.

I claim- 1. A collar, D, provided with the eye 0 of a size sufficient to pass freely over the post, and also provided with hooks E E and G of sufficient size and shape to receive and hold the fence-wire, substantially as specified.

2. A collar, D, provided with an eye, 0, with hooks E E G and lugs 1 2 3 formed on the eye of the collar, substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand.

IGNATIUS DROEGE, JR. 

